Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 has fundamentally altered the Kingdom’s approach to international partnerships. No longer content to exchange oil for revenue under Western security guarantees, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman seeks to transform Saudi Arabia into a diversified, technology-driven economy capable of thriving in a post-carbon world. This ambition created both opportunity and necessity: opportunity to leverage competition among global powers for favorable partnerships, and necessity to rapidly acquire infrastructure, technology, and industrial capacity that decades of rentier governanceRentier governance failed to develop domestically.

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Beyond Oil: China’s Infrastructural Entanglement with Saudi Arabia

  • Asad Ullah

摘要

Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 has fundamentally altered the Kingdom’s approach to international partnerships. No longer content to exchange oil for revenue under Western security guarantees, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman seeks to transform Saudi Arabia into a diversified, technology-driven economy capable of thriving in a post-carbon world. This ambition created both opportunity and necessity: opportunity to leverage competition among global powers for favorable partnerships, and necessity to rapidly acquire infrastructure, technology, and industrial capacity that decades of rentier governanceRentier governance failed to develop domestically.